Road 54

Noa saw the infinite meadow whipped by the wind; her beautiful wavy, dark brown hair was swaying in the strong breeze and she remembered the scene inch by inch. Two tears ran down her cheeks, and in the sky she saw the scene again and felt very bad about it...

-- I am at a crossroads," she said to him, "I love my career, I have struggled a lot and now I am about to pole vault to a new level. I have loved mathematics in silence; and magically came in contact with a knowledge that will take civilization who knows where; I can find a man who was my dream and you came along. I can't do all three. I'm afraid of where all this might lead.

He didn't look at her. He swallowed hard. Noa was facing a destiny and the answer would be the smartest one.

-- I have not come into your life to close any path for you," he said without looking at her, with a lump in his throat and a dark world before him....

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